Guy Dies By Pissing on Powerlines
An Elma, Wash., man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a one-car crash near Montesano. Grays Harbor County sheriff’s Deputy Dave Pimentel said Monday that Roy Messenger, 50, was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday night. Messenger called a relative to pull his car out of the ditch. When family members arrived they found Messenger electrocuted. Pimentel said Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn’t see the live wire. Pimentel said there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger’s body.
Well if this story doesn’t sum up the whole debate over Free Will vs. Predetermination, I don’t know what does. Did Roy Messenger cause his johnson to be electrocuted by his own actions? Or were those bolts of electricity fated to be sent up his urinary tract by some sort of destiny? A Determinist would argue that Messenger’s death was causally the result of his own decisions. Whereas a Fatalist would state that his penile electrocution was inevitable and he had no choice but to accept it. Personally, I stick with the Compatibilist school, which reconciles the two by saying that while random occurrences may have put Roy alongside that ditch waiting for a ride, it was his own free will to whip his hog out and whizz on 1.21 jigowatts of electricity. Whatever your belief system, we can all agree on one thing; Talk about pissing your life away.
darwinism and a nice lawsuit against the state of washington.
nice, i guess someone should email the mythbusters and tell them this one is confirmed…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2004_season)
well look on the bright side, at least they don’t need to worry about getting this guy’s car out of the ditch.. i’d say it’s a win.
I’ve always wondered if you could get electrocuted pissing on the third rail.
It was his Final Destination…part of the plan…
“Beware the risk of cheating the plan, disrespecting the design… could initiate a horrifying fury that would terrorize even the Grim Reaper – and you don’t even want to fuck with that MacDaddy.”
I wish Taylor would pee on me.
Pissing his life away…badum bump.
Also I’m pretty sure determinism and fatalism are the same, except that fatalism specifies god as the cause of all inevitable outcomes.
From Myth Busters –
Upon retesting the myth on an electric fence it was found to be Plausible, but the rail was still Busted. Distance was the factor, as the urine stream breaks up less at the close range needed for urinating on the fence than urinating on the third rail, thus ensuring a direct line of current between one’s body and the electrical source.
Shit like this is why I only pee on homeless people.
Worst thing they do is maybe chase you a block before their shopping cart loses control.
I’d rather go this way then the poor prick that worked in the Dunkin Donuts in New York taking out the garbage and fell into a cesspool and drowned. Now that’s a shitty way to die
“dont wiz on the electric fence”
ain’t that a pissah, eh?
Goddammit, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good!
Didnt see the live wire my ass. Is there any doubt at all that he was aiming for it?
gigawatt*
Forget Barbaric . . . this is SHOCKING